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Sunny Shao

Education

PhD. Candidate, Political Science (Mass Behavior)

University of California

Riverside, CA

current - 2016

  • [Dissertation] WeChat Discourse and Political Influence of Ethnic Social Media

M.S., Public Policy in Economics

Pepperdine University

Malibu, CA

2015 - 2013

  • Focused in Econometrics and State Governance

B.A., International Communications

Nottingham University

Nottingham, UK

2013 - 2010

  • Studied communication theory and public spheres on social media platforms

Selected Positions

Researcher & Center Associate

Center for Social Innovation (UCR)

Riverside, CA

current - 2018

  • Use R and Qualtrics to design survey experiments to test and evaluate census outreach messages for better allocation of fundings and resources
  • Independently query, analyze, and visualize both structured and unstructured datasets (with R and python) to measure social disparity and impacts for clients’ grant application or annual reports.
  • Design and deploy interactive data visualization tools using R, shiny, ArcGIS, and AWS for government agencies and organizations that help them to strategize their projects or resource allocations.

Researcher

AAPI Data

Riverside, CA

current - 2017

  • Classify voter file data using surname and geography match algorithms to assign survey experiments
  • Program, analyze, and visualize the largest Asian American Survey projects (2018 National Asian American Survey and 2018-2020 National Asian American Voter Survey)
  • Proficient in various data manipulation, survey weight raking, visualization, and GIS analysis packages in R and Python

Summer Fellow (Survey Design)

Education Pioneer

Los Angeles, CA

2016

  • Worked closely with coordinators, principals and teachers on program evaluations
  • Created stratified weighted sampling surveys to evaluate programs of Camino Nuevo charter school network
  • Designed protocols and methodology for future program evaluations

Data Analyst Intern

SmartAnalyst

Gurgaon, India

2012

  • Interviewed thoracic oncologists in Japan and China for pharmaceutical clients, who are on phase II trials of non-small cell lung cancer drugs
  • Translated three-way phone meetings between client, SmartAnalyst and Chinese thoracic oncologists
  • Crowdsourced a list of thoracic oncologists through medical journals

Selected Projects

Geographic Profiles, Racial Data

shinyApp + AWS hosting

N/A

current - 2020

Asian American Voter Survey (Experimental Design & Name-match algorithms)

AAPI Data, APIAVote & AAAJC

N/A

2020 - 2018

Experiment on Inland Empire Census 2020 Outreach Messages by Census Tracts

Center for Social Innovation, UC Riverside

Riverside, CA

2020

National Asian American Survey

AAPI Data

N/A

2018

Selected Grants

Coulter Foundation AAPI Research GSR Grant

Counter Foundation

Riverside, CA

current - 2017

2020 Rstudio conference Diversity Scholarship

Rstudio

San Francisco, CA

2020 - 2019

UCR Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship

University of California, Riverside

Riverside, CA

2017 - 2016

Selected Press

Who are the Chinese Americans voting for Trump

The Spectator UK

London, UK

2020

Invited Talk

2020 Census and Beyond: New Tool for AAPI Census Efforts

Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy

Virtual

2019

How Perception of living experiences shape political enagement of Immigrants?

Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium

Irvine, CA

2017